NEWS: The Poo Throwing Principal Might Get Her Old Job Back

CULTURE: The Poo Throwing Principal Might Get Her Old Job Back

For school teachers who interact with many, many horrible children on a daily basis, I am sure there is a level of frustration that can only be truly appreciated in the faculty staff room. That being said, I gotta say throwing poo at a child is an absolute no-no in any circumstance. It appears that a Toronto School Principal, Maria Pantalone, decided otherwise and let shit fly at a 12-year-old boy who was acting out.

The incident occurred on July 30, 2006. Unfortunately all details of the incident are to remain private in order to protect the child. I am curious how feces could even become a weapon of choice and available, and during summer school no less.



Seriously, monkeys throw poo. Principals aren't suppose to do that.



Fortunately for Maria Pantalone, the courts have ruled that she has paid her debt to society and to the embarrassed little child.

Pantalone did not lose her job at the time of the incident but was given an alternate assignment from the school board which kept her out of contact with the students and far outside her throwing range. Now that a verdict has been reached in the assault case, the school board will meet to consider allowing Pantalone to resume her former position.

Hopefully, the leniency here is because Pantalone only hit the boy in the shoulder with the poo and missed the face.



It probably has nothing to do with the fact that she is the sister of Toronto's Deputy Mayor.

He shat in the urinal, I'm sure.

Everybody throws feces up here. It's just the thing to do.

her name is a traditional character from the Italian Commedia dell'Arte - Pantalone would totally have thrown shit at Arlechinno. She's just following theatrical conventions that have been in place for a few hundred years.

Someone dropped their drawers...mkay...and deposited a huge, brown butt snake in the urinal! I want to know who did it!

The fact that her name is Pantalone adds just a little bit more humor. Not much, but a little.

What I want to know is where it came from...
I mean, did she just squeeze one out in class and throw it at the kid?

You guys launch pre-emptive wars. We fling our shit at you. You tell me which is more harmful to the world.

he probably shit on her desk while she was out of the room...i know kids who joked about shitting on the principals desk all the time.

She should not get her job back...but it helps to have family in high places I guess...

I just REALLY want to know the full story behind the incident.

I agree with the Canucks, but apparently Canadians are just as dumb as Americans

she was just demonstrating that we are in fact cousin of monkeys, by imitating their behaviours :p

it's silly.. you through poo at my kid and it's time to find a new job.

10 to 1 that little hoser had it comin'.

okay so not to belittle the whole thing but nowhere did I see it mentioned that it was human poo. It may have been dog poo or cat poo, which in any circumstance, is still fucking disgusting. And if anyone is taking bets I'll lay money on the idea that the child did have it coming and will eventually be read about again in the papers as trouble causing teen who A:kills school teacher after a "harmless poop joke was told in class"; B:Insites Highschool riot by climbing tree and acting in a simian like fashion; or C:finds a path of savlation by helping other troubled teens...we'll just wait and see....

Only in Canada....

Kids love poop. It's like speaking their language.

I had the same question and many more...

I mean, If she shat in her hand wouldn't the kid see it coming and hide behind his desk, or be too dumbfounded to move?

In that case did she actually hit him or did he duck and cause the quiet straight A student behind him to get pelted?

Maybe she threw it at him because he was the smelly kid in class and she didn't think anyone would notice/care.

If she didn't poo in her hand, then where did it come from? Did she pocket it earlier that day just incase?

God dammit they need to clear up these questions!

Wow. I totally thought that before I saw your post. Weird.

she probably keeps a jar of it on her desk - to discipline unruly students without having to get up.

hey, I had a teacher who regularly threw chalk.....

In all fairness......it was just in her nature to do so: